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...leading article in the June number of the Graduates' Magazine is "Philosophy at Harvard," by Professor Munsterberg. Professor Munsterberg discusses the philosophical department at Harvard, its aims, its equipment and its needs. The work is suffering, the writer says, from the lack of a building devoted exclusively to the philosophical department--a building in which all the philosophical classes, now scattered through the different recitation halls, and all the classes in psychological research, now cramped in inadequate laboratories in Dane Hall, might be brought together. "Such a home," Professor Munsterberg writes, "would give us first, of course, the room...
Atlantic: "The Reconstruction Period: the Ku Klux Movement," by W. G. Brown '91; "Our Literature Once More: American Prose Style," by J. D. Logan '94; "The Professor's Chance," by Robert Herrick '90; "Productive Scholarship in America," by Professor Hugo Munsterberg...
...Atlantic Monthly" for May contains a very interesting article by Professor Hugo Munsterberg on "Productive Scholarship in America," a brief synopsis of which follows...
...same magazine Professor Munsterberg publishes an extended reply in which he shows how institutions that are really only colleges are often mistaken abroad for "universities"; that the opportunities offered students here are not inferior to those abroad; that the theoretical courses especially flourish; that the doctor's degree of the best American universities is superior to the average degree in Germany; that the output of new books in every field is very large...
Professor Munsterberg does not believe, however, that American scholarship is "all that it ought to be." One reason for this belief offers itself at once: "In Germany the very idea of a university demands productive scholarship as the centre and primary interest of all university activity; in America it is an accessory element, a secondary factor, almost a luxury, which is tolerated but never demanded as a condition." This is because in America there is no sharp line drawn between university work and college work as is the case in Germany. The regular college work does not require and even...